Tigo Tanzania opens up mobile money

Tigo Tanzania has announced that customers of its Tigo Pesa mobile money service will now be able to move funds between any of the country’s mobile money operators, as Vodacom’s M-Pesa joins an interoperable network already set up by Tigo, Zantel and...

Facebook drives Internet safety in Africa

Facebook hosted a Women’s Safety roundtable in Kenya last week, with participants from NGOs, academia, women’s rights groups, and safety organisations from Kenya and across sub-Saharan Africa to highlight how the community can work together to create a...

MPT delivers modular data centre in Brazzaville

Master Power Technologies (MPT) is delivering a turnkey modular data centre solution to a telecoms company in Brazzaville, in the Republic of Congo. The solution is to be delivered as a set of modular, pre-tested containers that comprise a self-contained data centre....

Tigo Tanzania makes WhatsApp free

Tanzanian telecommunication company renown for driving digital lifestyle transformation, Tigo, has announced free WhatsApp services for its 10-million users. This makes Tigo the first telecom in the country to offer the social media service for free, says GM Diego...

Orange buys Tigo DRC

Orange and Millicom have signed an agreement leading to Orange’s acquisition of Millicom’s operations in the DRC (Tigo DRC). The mobile market in the DRC is undergoing significant growth and is currently the largest mobile market in Central and West Africa...

NEC Africa, XON consolidate safety and security for Africa

The XON public safety and security division, headed by Bertus Marais, now offers an extensive array of solutions from NEC’s portfolio specifically suited to the African market. The business unit offers a broad yet tightly integrated range of public safety and...